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Even if he were, today’s Republican party is nothing like he would recognize. Especially since most of the Dixiecrats who opposed his civil rights efforts joined the Republican Party some time after his death.

MLK never admitted to belonging to either party. He was more interested in Civil Rights and playing nice with whoever would help the most. Most likely, he was Republican until the civil rights movement and Democratic after, but he never said, so that’s speculation. His father was a Republican, as were most Blacks ( who managed to get registered to vote) before the Civil Rights movement, because the last president who had done anything for them was a Republican- Abraham Lincoln.The whole situation did a 180 when the Civil Rights movement began. Then, the presidents who helped were JFK and LBJ, both Democrats. When Johnson signed the Civil Rights bill, he said “We have lost the South for a generation”. He underestimated. ………….……..Prior to that, the Southern Dixiecrats voted solidly Democratic and had since the Civil War. After that, they Southern states became bright red and have been to this day.

“You try to hijack any part of history to eridicate your dismal party’s past failures. You look bad trying to think you can just turn things around like that. You Dems have always been the party of failure and slavery.”

1) I am not now, nor have I ever been a member of the Democratic Party.

2) Nobody is denying that many Democrats supported slavery and opposed civil rights legislation. Those are facts. It is also fact that many of those Democrats who opposed civil rights legislation left the Democratic Party after said legislation passed and joined the Republican Party. That is something many “conservative” posters on these fora such as yourself try to ignore.

We should institute the “purple thumb” proof of having voted that they use in other countries.If you don’t have one the day after Election Day, I don’t want to hear any of your moaning for the rest of the year (or for the next two years, for that matter).

“…we have “I voted” stickers for that.”-————————————————I haven’t gotten one of those in years.They also used to stamp your registration card, especially in primaries to discourage crossover voting as touted by Rush Limbaugh and his “Operation Chaos” 6 years ago.

About Ben Sargent

Tired of "politically correct?" Want an editorial cartoon that is quick to call out the bumblings of U.S. politics and cuts slack to no one? Pulitzer-Prize winner Ben Sargent is paying attention and making Washington have second thoughts about that little thing called the First Amendment.